Rainbow Avenger

This is two issues:

Rainbow Arcana, Blaster turned Warshade. Diamond D, the renegade Outcast he befriended and redeemed. The outfit? Um, he likes leather.



Formal costume for those times he needs to shakes hands on camera and Statesman objects to the fetish gear.



Arcana's Vanguard armor, because Dee Dee doesn't like bruises he didn't make himself.

I agree with Obsidian on both counts. Aside the lack of accuracy in Dwarf Drain this looks pretty solid.

What server are you on? Because if you're on Virtue or a server that raids, HOs are your friend. The lack of accuracy in Ebon Eye, Gravitic and Inky make me a sad squid. Mire is great and all but why be shackled to it. If you really can't spare a second slot, a nucleolus (acc/dmg) and a pair of endoplasms (acc/mez) will serve you well.

Absorption is a good place for a Steadfast unique in addition to the -kb and will net you a +recovery bonus.

I agree that Shadow Cloak is overslotted. --> Danger Will Robinson: That 5% recharge from Red Fortune is doing nothing because according to Mids you're over the cap. You'd be better served by reducing it to two slots and redistributing the bounty to any one of the powers you currently have one-slotted. Put that LotG unique into one of those two slots instead of afterthoughting it at 49. If the only reason you took Grant Invis was to park that LotG, you can take something else now.

Unchain Essence needs love badly.

Stygian doesn't need the heal. You can harvest another one or two slots there. Remember it doesn't require a tohit check so all that accuracy is wasted. Consider frankenslotting for endmod/rech.

Unlike Tanker taunt, Dwarf taunt does require a tohit check. (Or it did. My info might be outdated.)

Yes, Grav Snare is sort of useless. I really think you'd benefit more from Orbiting Death, as controversial a power as it is. OB plus Inky is pretty nice. It's a pricey toggle however and will need four or five slots from somewhere. Grav Shield is a good candidate. With Eclipse you don't need to slot up a S/L shield.

Steal a slot from Gravity Well. The 6-bonus is 2.5% psi resist. You have Eclipse which makes the bonus redundant.

Do some juggling and post the results!

The 20-24 was "Retrieve the stolen weapons from the Freakshow" which awards the Pwnz badge so I think you're right on. The 25-30 was "The Redemption of Alexander 'the Great'" which - son of a bee - is also a badge arc (just checked Red Tomax). So I think that solves one mystery. Thanks!

Anyone else see this issue with disappearing emotes?

In the last three days I've experienced a rash of errors with two characters. None are serious by themselves but I'm starting to worry about the possibility of a larger error with my characters or my account and I don't where to start fixing it.

Kid Scorpio - brand new Blaster. Late last week I earned him Task Force Commander and purchased the Vanguard costume change emote. Yesterday (the 9th) the costume change emote vanished from his menu.

Rainbow Arcana - old main since I3. Also purchased the Vanguard emote a week ago. As of yesterday it's also MIA.

On Saturday the 8th I ran a series of Flashback missions with Arcana. I completed a level 20-24 arc with the conditions "No Travel Powers" and "Character is Debuffed." The badges failed to award. I repeated the same arc with the same conditions. Still no badges. I ran a different arc in the level 25-29 range with the same two conditions. For a third time the badges failed to award but this time the client listed his last earned badge as Task Force Commander. This is Scorpio's last earned badge, not Arcana's (he's had it since 2004).

I'm out 200 Vanguard merits and about three hours play time trying to get the badges. Not onerous but I'm unwilling to drop more time and merits only to have them vanish again. The notion that my main and my new favourite might be corrupted in some way gives me a twitch. Any ideas?

Using Nova form, slither up to teammate all inconspicuous-like. Type:

/e Lays eggs in $target's ears.

Tends to get me slapped.

50 Mercs/FF

1. Medic already has Aid Other and Stimulant. Give him Aid Self so he can bandage his own boo-boos. Give him Resurrect and I'll kiss Castle on the lips.

2. SpecOps stealth is pointless. Give them a stealth strike ability from hidden. Remove the stealth -speed debuff so they don't straggle behind. That or remove the stealth altogether.

3. Serum *sigh* Do something, anything with this that puts it even close to the level of Gangwar.

FF, you took a power that would normally be highly situational on a team and used it as a brilliant "oh ****" button. A perfect example of quick thinking that probably prevented a wipe. Bravo for original thinking under pressure.

You didn't get kicked for using Force Bubble. You got kicked for bruising a bad Tanks ego.

Condolences to all the _NA peoples.

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I'd disagree, again using personal shield/armor powers as an example. Characters who have those tend to get access to them pretty early -- level four or so. On the other hand, a true "costume part" that creates a similar visual effect doesn't open up until level 30. So again, a Human Torch-like design, where a power or energy effectively is the costume, is sort of left out of the fun. So if anything, such a rule places more weight on high-level elements for characters like that.

Besides, if having an element in a design that others don't have access to for whatever reason is some kind of unfair advantage, does that mean shields or weapons should be disqualified too? What about vet rewards, or unlockable items, or items from booster packs?

If it really detracts from the costume's look, fine -- I guess that character won't be winning, then, just like if they had an awesome costume with a dumb-looking hat or something.

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Running any power aura is also unfair to the contestants you're standing next to. Lineups in CCs can get shoulder-to-shoulder tight and a person who's worked hard on a detailed or delicately coloured costume is washed out, clashes or otherwise ends up not showing to best effect when they're standing a foot away from Captain Glowie McFirebulb. The whole point of a good, contest-winning costume is that it shouldn't require an aura as a prop to bring it together.

Of course you can't force people to turn off auras, you can only ask. If someone refuses... well they don't win.

My beef is with people who insist on CCs in full darkness during night mode when you can't actually see the costumes properly. Jeez, wait ten minutes until morning.

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Yes! The Extraordinary [censored] Clowns. It was a group of players (from the Blaster forums, IIRC) that decided to roll up a toon and abide by only one rule: "It's my $15, I'll play however I want." That was an awesome group of people and we, surprisingly, steam-rolled the Hollows. There was a Scrapper that would run through the level and pull *everything* back to the group, that was his 'thing'. As Fulmens stated, we had Tankers that would play Defender, Blasters that played Controller/Defender, Defenders that played Blasters, etc. That was the only time I actually had fun in the Hollows. I had an AR/Dev Blaster that played Controller using only Trops, Web, Taser and Beanbag, but never used any attack abilities because "I'm a Controller, not a Damager."

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Oh Sweet Jasper I didn't know anyone still remembered the A** Clowns. Yes it was all Blaster forum regulars circa 2005.

The AR/Dev "Controller" was Ohms (the whole thing was mainly his idea.) I don't recall who was behind the healing Tank but he used to tell people on PuGs that he was a pacifist and that he was roleplaying a combat medic. I remember one guy (I don't recall his AT) who did nothing but run in circles barking. He was a were-dog. A** Clown teams marked the only time I have ever seen newbies quit Hollows PuGs in horror.

The core players of the A** Clowns had so much fun we founded a regular SG on Virtue that exists to this day.

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Damn, wish I didn't have to work and could just gripe and moan about not being able to play online

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It's Canada Day. All the canucks have the day off.

Of course everything's closed for the holiday. And all the celebrations in my city have been canceled because of a city worker's strike.

And it's raining.

Wait! I'll play City of Heroes! Or not... Guess I'll sit at home in the rain and stare at my garbage.

*pouts*

Go FF.

Then there will be two of us. I'm lonely.

*rubs hands gleefully*

Although I do hope they've done some decent research and haven't futzed up the Arcana archetypes.

The Server Status page now features a closeup shot of a guy's backside. I can work with that.